Many of my students come from an area that we would not consider to be the safest or the most stable, so I'm always amazed that this doesn't happen more often in the semester. However, this time it's a bit too close to home.
A student of mine lost her sister to a senseless act of murder. The woman left behind an autistic son and disappeared for days. I feel so badly for her and am keeping her and her family in my thoughts and prayers as they attend the funeral tomorrow.
But then, in a strange twist of fate, it was another of my students who actually was involved in finding the body. It was on this student's neighbor's field and had been run over by a combine. This student was particularly upset and bothered by this because, as you can imagine, there wasn't a lot left after such an accident.
So not only does one family mourn the loss of their loved one, but another family tries to deal with what they found in their own neighborhood.
We were just discussing this in class last week, as that was when the body was discovered. The related student has been missing, now with obvious reason, for over a week. I'm keeping all of them in my thoughts and prayers and hope you will do the same.
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